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If 52 bacterial colonies grow on a nutrient agar plate inoculated with on mL of a 1 :10000 dilution of 1.0 g hamburger, how many bacteria are in the original hamburger sample?


Assume that you inoculate potato salad wih 1.0x10^5 bacterial cells and stored it at room temperature. After three hours there are 1.6x10^6 cells. How many generations did the cells go through?
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If 52 bacterial colonies grow on a nutrient agar plate inoculated with on mL of a 1 :10000 dilution of 1.0 g hamburger, how many bacteria are in the original hamburger sample?

@ 1000, it is: 52,000 bacteria/g

@ 10000, it is: 520,000 bacteria/g
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Assume that you inoculate potato salad wih 1.0x10^5 bacterial cells and stored it at room temperature. After three hours there are 1.6x10^6 cells. How many generations did the cells go through?

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Assume that you inoculated potato salad with 10 bacterial cells and stored it at room temperature. After 3 hours, there are 640 cells. How many generations did the cells go through?

A. 1 generation
B. 3 generations
C. 6 generations
D. 12 generations

C. 6 generations
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